category = mechanics, informational, miscelaneous suggested name = html pages, minecraft html what i want = put some web pages on my web server with images and forms, that i can read inside minecraft .. NOT A WEB BROWSER WITH ADDRESS BAR INSIDE MINECRAFT .. example: i write a web interface to search recipes and i can view inside minecraft, connected to my webserver, and intecact with it, without recipe plugin .. example: i can view the players rank realtime inside mc, and query stats, thougth http/html, inside minecraft .. example: player profile view/edit inside mc, with html forms ideas for commands = if you type /recipe internally opens http://localhost/minecrafthtml/recipes.php?player=$player or so, then it opens in a mc window interface ... if you type /profile it opens http://localhost/minecrafthtml/profile.php?player=%sender.name% and renders a player profile window inside minecraft, retrieved from the webserver, limited to the controls the page have i think this will add so much flexibility to minecraft game interface, game experience, and plugin development .. i could not find anybody did some like this ... i found an ingame web browser once but , until could be based on it, i think is too heavy and is not that i am searching for (merged post) only thought on page rendering and send forms ... all logic can be processed on web server trough php, only pure html (JUST SOME HTML TAGS like images, forms, tables, anchors, no font styles) ... the more complex, the more hard to develop and insecure think on some like this HTML: <html> <table> <tr> <td><img src='none.jpg'/></td> <td><a href='recipe.php?item=gold'><img src='gold.jpg'/></a></td> <td><img src='none.jpg'/></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href='recipe.php?item=gold'><img src='gold.jpg'/></a></td> <td><a href='recipe.php?item=redst'><img src='redst.jpg'/></a></td> <td><a href='recipe.php?item=gold'><img src='gold.jpg'/></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src='none.jpg'/></td> <td><a href='recipe.php?item=gold'><img src='gold.jpg'/></a></td> <td><img src='none.jpg'/></a></td> </tr> </table> <img src='clock.jpg'/> <form action='recipe-php' method='get'> <input name='item'/><br/> <input type='submit' value='Search'/> </form> </html> Code: # config.yml commands: - recipe: 'http://localhost/minecrafthtml/recipe.php?recipe=$1' # ingame view/edit password, skin, etc - profile: 'http://localhost/minecrafthtml/profile.php?player=$sender.name' - ranking: 'http://localhost/minecrafthtml/ranking.php' - bugreport: 'http://localhost/minecrafthtml/bugreport.php?reporter=$sender.name&date=$timestamp'
Before anyone comes with "not possible": It is possible. You can get the message a server sends you and you can render it on a Map. However, such a project would consume a lot of time, depending on what HTML/CSS/JS functionality you want to implement.
Syd Adding CSS and JS would be a nearly-impossible request. Simple HTML by itself would be much more doable, and sounds like it is just what the OP is asking for; just some simple image tags for recipes and text for everything else.
only thought on page rendering and send forms ... all logic can be processed on web server trough php, only pure html ... the more complex, the more hard to develop and insecure think on some like this HTML: <html> <table> <tr> <td><img src='none.jpg'/></td> <td><a href='recipe.php?item=gold'><img src='gold.jpg'/></a></td> <td><img src='none.jpg'/></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href='recipe.php?item=gold'><img src='gold.jpg'/></a></td> <td><a href='recipe.php?item=redst'><img src='redst.jpg'/></a></td> <td><a href='recipe.php?item=gold'><img src='gold.jpg'/></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src='none.jpg'/></td> <td><a href='recipe.php?item=gold'><img src='gold.jpg'/></a></td> <td><img src='none.jpg'/></a></td> </tr> </table> <img src='clock.jpg'/> <form action='recipe-php' method='get'> <input name='item'/><br/> <input type='submit' value='Search'/> </form> </html> Code: # config.yml commands: - recipe: 'http://localhost/minecrafthtml/recipe.php?recipe=$1' # ingame view/edit password, skin, etc - profile: 'http://localhost/minecrafthtml/profile.php?player=$sender.name' - ranking: 'http://localhost/minecrafthtml/ranking.php' - bugreport: 'http://localhost/minecrafthtml/bugreport.php?reporter=$sender.name&date=$timestamp'
there are some similar projects in which it can be based.. is not the same .. to save bandwith and processing, all fonts could be minecraft fonts and images could be tiny and minecraft could stretch them, like with skins - minebrowse - web displays
no need to be ironic .. i know these are mods and i know that cant't do with plugins i know how to make plugins just like you ... but this "minecraft html" escapes to my knowledge so this is what i am asking if someone accepts the challenge, please post constructive comments
Then you can un-escape it... In my opinion it is best to use that link I gave you. Hook a plugin into it that will post the request and get the image. Then it puts the image in a map. Best what you will get. Or just make a direct link to images and have it get those
i didn't understand what you posted above ... how can minecraft read some image trough http and show in UI ? could be but i didn't mean just display ingame images, i want some degree of interactivity too .. i think if minecraft can read an image by http and show ingame, then it can read an entire text (html) document and renders ingame i mean basic html, some tags like images, tables, forms and anchors .. no font styles as could use default minecraft fonts
atesin Minecraft itself can't, bukkit can. And then you get back at the link I posted. And even with that "basic" html, you need a way to render it, nobody is gonna make a bukkit browser for that.
well then someone else knows how to do it and likes the idea this plugin would add a lot of functionality to bukkit with an external webserver .. i was thinking you could make a change skin, change password and view player statistics ingame dialog for example, you could make a lot more
yes, it have to make it clickable .. there is a lot of stuff ingame that are clickable, then maybe is possible i mean it must write a PLUGIN to add all those functionality minecraft don't have but we want .. better think how to make clickable images, clickable buttons, editing input dialogs, etc., instead of saying "you can't do that" , obvious
atesin We can't, you don't even have a cursor, and if you have one then the client won't send it to the server. If you want to go against this: be my guest, but if you claim that it is possible then also please show me your code etc. There isn't a difference between mods and plugins for nothing
there is a cursor .. when you type something on chat area, search some item in creative inventory, use a name tag with an anvil, etc so you say this addon can be possible with a mod ?
atesin You don't see that cursor when you have a map open do you? That parts exists doesn't mean that we are always able to use them. And yes, but those aren't supported on here and you posted 2 links yourself already
You have 3 options for an interface: 1. Map (can look whatever way you want it to look, however no interacting options at all aside from player movement) 2. Item GUI (simply items with tooltip text, since fires events, its fully use able GUI, but would look nothing like a webpage) 3. Chat ASCII (dump text file into chat, interaction is limited to clickable links)
That gui menu that you created in the image as an example would be impossible. To render things like that, it would have to be a map, and it would have to re render with each change that is made. It could not detect clicks and would have little interaction, but I guess one possible way to have clicks could be to make a "cursor" which is really a few pixels being rendered on the map and listen for PlayerMoveEvent to move the cursor with WASD, then detect clicks with PlayerInteractEvent. I don't know anything about communicating with web servers, though.
Well, there are two more, I can imagine. 4.: display a hologram (maybe in front of a white wall). Clickable, only text and small rects possible, same color codes as in chat. 5.: give player a book (same way as map): only text (+color codes, and these rects). Multiple pages. However, nothing to really show an webpage. Besides, I think it is a impossible idea, rendering a webpage on a map. Why impossible? Since rendering a webpage is heavy, even if the client would do, but a server would have to render the webpage for all client viewing it, and a bukkit server (which is written in java) is not that performant itself. So in conclusion: just forget the idea.
Actually, Freelix2000 idea is very clever, and could probably work for simple pages (although painful) though, as timtower said, outside of taking a premade image as atesin demonstrated, it wouldnt be able to display actual webpage, unless you actually write a full blown HTML parser and renderer, which would probably end up laggy and buggy. Pretty much, this is theorically possible, but extremely difficult and long to do.
so i think it is more possible to do it with a mod ? anyway .. would be great if it would be done! too bad i don't know how to make mods, any suggestion?
atesin Yes it is possible, you posted links yourself, no need to make a new one. And besides that: mods aren't supported on here.
What I personally would do is just have your PHP return some JSON containing an image url, and maybe some coordinates for some sort of coordinate system that could be fashioned, and when you move your "cursor" with Freelix2000 's idea, you can have them "click" on these rectangles defined by the coordinate points to imitate things like buttons or whatever.
A project that I have been working on could be used to achieve this. But the rendering will of course be slow as all hell. As for text input when a user clicks a text box it could prompt in chat and that would be how text boxes could work
